Misguided fans? Campaign? You need to chill out. This entire situation is just a meme.
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Reggie Fils-Aime To Finally Receive His Aeron Chair After a Successful Petition By Fans
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Misguided fans? Campaign? You need to chill out. This entire situation is just a meme.
You're literally posting constantly about how salty everyone on ERA is and how it's bad to have money.
Yeah, completely unnecessary, but whatever, I guess. The people who bought in to this are fucking weird.
I have never once said having money is bad, it's the complete opposite of what I say and what I believe.
I just found it funny how salty some people get out of something that's obviously a meme and some dumb fun. We can't enjoy dumb stuff anymore apparently.
Doesn't make it any less stupid, especially when people who aren't overwhelmingly charmed by it keep getting called out for being salty or joyless.
Nah, it has nothing to do with "sub par models", it's just a not all chairs fit all people thing, and the design of the Aeron has always been an issue for some people. A big common issue is with the lip of the Aeron puting pressure on the backs of peoples' legs, causing nerve impingement. Anyone who worked in a startup back when "we give our staff Aeron chairs" was a common feature of job postings has heard all the complaints about them. Hell, the guy who designed the Aeron ended up leaving Herman Miller and designing a better version of it, "The Chadwick", that fixes some of the Aeron's bigger issues.
Reggie's a big guy, so it might be less an issue for him. One thing the Aeron's always had going for it is they make it in several sizes, which run quite large.
Why don't you? Why are you complaining what people in their free time while doing nothing?
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I'm an idiot and misread the Tweet
Welp, big old guy like Reggie will definitely benefit from a chair like that. Nice little retirement gift from fans to get the company to send him one.
I'm an idiot and misread the Tweet
Welp, big old guy like Reggie will definitely benefit from a chair like that. Nice little retirement gift from fans to get the company to send him one.
This thread is weird. I thought the gesture was cute and funny, something I really need right now, but posters here are acting like fans bought Reggie the chair out of tribute instead of using the money to feed people in Africa. I don't think fans who signed the petition honestly thought it would go anyway, just like all the other thousands of serious and joke petition you find floating on the internet. Even then, they did't spend a dime. The company is doing it as PR.
Like really this forum is:
Like really this forum is:
This is what I initially thought as well.
The chair, maybe signed by co-workers/peers, or something along those lines.
I thought this was about letting him take back his old chair for sentimental value or something....
I think people are overestimated the effort here lol.
Signing a Change.org petition takes seconds. You guys acting like the made Reggie a pyramid or something lol. And in the end, was only 23,000 people. That's a tiny sample in terms of fandoms.
Signing a Change.org petition takes seconds. You guys acting like the made Reggie a pyramid or something lol. And in the end, was only 23,000 people. That's a tiny sample in terms of fandoms.
To the guys complain about doing a fun little rhing for multimillionaires:
Would you be willing to help me out getting a PC? I could really use one for work, but can't afford one.
I'm not even close to be single digit millionaire, so I should be more deserving of a nice gesture, right?
Because that's apparently how it works.
But for real now: It's cool that they got him a new one. It was a fun little campaign
Would you be willing to help me out getting a PC? I could really use one for work, but can't afford one.
I'm not even close to be single digit millionaire, so I should be more deserving of a nice gesture, right?
Because that's apparently how it works.
But for real now: It's cool that they got him a new one. It was a fun little campaign
Case in point how while it's okay to be a fan...there are times where one can be just a tad out of touch.
jesus christ these idiots spent money on Nintendo games and now spent money to buy a very rich retired man a chair.
I can only imagine how much this chair costs since 23K people donated $1 each. Thats a $23,000 chair fans bought for Reggie. smh
I can only imagine how much this chair costs since 23K people donated $1 each. Thats a $23,000 chair fans bought for Reggie. smh
Not "Era", I think a lot of people would find it strange people are being moved by a rich person being given a free expensive thing.
You do realize there wasn't any crowdfunding or sourcing here whatsoever, right? All people did was sign a petition for the fun of it.
i dont know why fans made such a big deal out of this. Those chairs are built like tanks and are designed so you can replace parts once things do finally start wearing out. I've had my aeron for over 10 years now (and it was already 8 years old when i bought it) and ive only had to replace a few things on the chair. reggies old chair was old because it was built to last.
When a specific gesture symbolizes everything that is wrong with late stage capitalism so perfectly, it is worth pointing out. There's something darkly poetic about it, even.
Happy for Reggie, but yes nintendo fans are very obsessive at times
Yeah. Reminds me slightly of when folks were donating money to that one celebrity to try to make her the youngest billionaire.
Nah, life's good man! Already got a couple of trips planned and paid for with friends later this year :D
My problem is this being such a meaningless gesture, to someone who can easily afford a chair like that or better. As I said in previous posts, I'd find something like a fan-made poster, fanart on Twitter, something more unique and truly related to what made these people love Reggie to be more fitting as a farewell gift, rather than this.
Just googled this. Holy fuck man are some people really stupid. Ok, this Reggie thing is nothing compared to the Kylie Jenner stuff.
Look like that would've taken more time. Sound like some bored people on the internet tryna have fun just went and signed their name on some petition board.
Probably takes more time to type out a post here.
Wow I came across this and thought it was a crazy coincidence as I was looking up what a Aeron chair is I also so this "sale" https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/470851
So searching for that Kylie Jenner GoFundMe, I found a campaign more similar to this one. Someone created one in order to buy Elon Musk a couch... how do y'all feel about that?
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/kylie-jenner-gofundme-fans-crowdfunding-billionaire-2018-7
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/kylie-jenner-gofundme-fans-crowdfunding-billionaire-2018-7
It doesn't need to be a hugely collaborative effort. Wasn't there a gift for a developer a few years ago that was basically a poster with users avatar or names or whatever on it? I forgot, but I do recall something like that. Might haven even been from GAF.
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